5lfm / Room on the shelf, 2017

Sculpture in display case, 1000 x 20 cm

Photo Summer Autumn Days, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Main state Archives)
The view of the Main State Archive emphasizes the aspect of the specific location. On the one hand, the structure of the building is examined. How is the process of its creation documented and archived? What information can be found about it, what aspects were taken into account, what handwritten notes and photographs can be found?
The artist has dealt with the old registry (file number F.II33), 5 running metres* of the Main State Archive, with the new building plans, formal applications and approvals, correspondence, as well as very practical matters such as fire and fire protection, the furnishing, the organization of the inventory and the inauguration ceremony in 1969. Almost 300 documents were processed and, consisting of a volume over 10m long, bundled into a ball, which is arranged in a display case specific to the archive. Precise information appears as details and fragments that can only be read by chance, they come together to form a single sculptural work.
Curator of the exhibition: Bettina Michel, art historian